Blumenthal HARTFORD, Conn. (Legal Newsline) - Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has called for legislation to require limitations on and disclosure of gifts to doctors from pharmaceutical drug companies.

FORT WORTH, Texas (Legal Newsline) - A Texas appeals court has agreed with a lower court's ruling that the plaintiffs in an asbestos suit could not show that Kelly-Moore Paint Co. helped cause a deceased man's mesothelioma.

Lisa Madigan (D) WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline)-A group of Democratic state attorneys general are calling on the U.S. Senate to pass legislation to create a national consumer protection watchdog agency, but warning lawmakers not to limit AGs' powers in the process.

McKenna SEATTLE (Legal Newsline) - Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna, as part of an ongoing effort to encourage transparency in the marketing of window sales, has reached a settlement agreement with Penguin Windows.

Van Hollen WAUSAU, Wis. (Legal Newsline) - The owners of a fiber mill screening processing facility in Ringle, Wis., have agreed to a settlement with state Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen over violations of state air pollution laws.

Coakley BOSTON (Legal Newsline) - Settlements have been reached by Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley with four auto insurance companies over allegations that they overcharged Massachusetts consumers for motorcycle insurance.

McKenna SEATTLE (Legal Newsline) - Rent-A-Center has agreed to a settlement with Washington Attorney General Rob McKenna, seven months after being sued for allegedly crossing the line with its collection tactics.

Hood JACKSON, Miss. (Legal Newsline) - Entergy Corp. says Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood should have contacted them before putting out a press release that questioned a transfer of $1.3 billion to the company's nuclear power wing.

Cuomo DURHAM, N.C. (Legal Newsline) - The way Duke University professor and former North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Michael Munger sees it, there can be only two reasons New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is suing Bank of America -- and neither of them are good.

Keenan RICHMOND (Legal Newsline) - Virginia Supreme Court Justice Barbara Milano Keenan has been unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate and will become the next judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

Coakley BOSTON (Legal Newsline) - Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has announced her opposition to a more than 4 percent raise to workers' compensation premiums requested by the insurance industry.

Zoeller INDIANAPOLIS (Legal Newsline) - Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller has voiced strong opposition to the settling of a lawsuit by the city of East Chicago with a for-profit entity that earned $16 million in casino revenue over 10 years.

Blumenthal HARTFORD, Conn. (Legal Newsline) - Following an agreement with Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has announced that every county in the state now has a hospital participating in the state's health plan for the uninsured.